2.4 Steps to do after TSM Server installation and configuration

Once you have successfully installed, you should check if installation is successful or not. Then you need to log into TSM server using the admin id created during server instance configuration and then configure the storage-pools, policies and register the nodes. You have to login through the administrative command line.

You can verify installations on Windows systems by viewing the initserv.log file. On AIX systems, examine the contents of the install.trace file in the Tivoli Storage Manager server installation directory.

TSM Administrative command line

1) TSM administrators use the administrative command line to control and monitor the server. Use the console mode from an administrative client to monitor export or import operations or to capture processing messages to an output file.

2) Start the administrative command line at the operating system prompt by using one of the following default paths

Windows:c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient

AIX 64-bit:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin64

AIX 32-bit:/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

Linux and other UNIX 64-bit:/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin64

Linux and other UNIX 32-bit: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

3) Starting administrative command line

To start the administrative command line, enter the following command

dsmadmc

From the Operations Center, click the globe icon in the menu bar and select Command Line.

On Windows, open the administrative command line by clicking All Programs > Tivoli Storage Manager > Administrative Command Line.

To start an administrative session in console mode, enter the following command:

dsmadmc -consolemode

Command recall is available for both the administrative client and the backup-archive client so that you can recall and edit previously entered commands.Also Read: TSM Administrator Daily routine tasks

TSM Administrator authority

You can use Tivoli Storage Manager to register administrators and grant administrators the ability to accomplish specific tasks. After you register administrators, those administrators can make queries and request help from the command line. To perform other server functions, administrators must be granted authority by being assigned one or more administrative privilege classes.

You can register an administrator from the command line by using the following command syntax

REGister Admin userid password Contact=contactinfo

TSM Administrator Privileges

1) The privilege class determines the administrative tasks that the administrator can perform. You can assign certain privileges to TSM administrators by using GRANT AUTHORITY command.

grant authority admin1 domains=clientdom

The following are the privileges available to assign to a administrator

2) An administrator with system privileges can distribute administrative tasks by using the following tasks

Registering administrators

Granting one or more administrative privilege classes to other administrators

Allowing separation of tasks

Allowing delegation of authority

Varying commands by privilege class

3) You can revoke part of the authority of an administrator with the revoke authority command. For example, rather than revoking all of the privilege classes for administrator, you revoke only the operator authority and the policy authority to policy domain. You enter the following command

revoke authority admin1 classes=operator domains=clientdom

4) To revoke all administrative privilege classes, omit specifying privilege classes, policy domains, or storage pools. For example, to revoke both the storage and operator privilege classes for an administrator, enter the following command

revoke authority admin1

5) You can also remove an administrator who is no longer responsible for Tivoli Storage Manager operations by using the remove admin command.

remove admin admin1

You cannot remove the last administrator with system privilege from the system. You also cannot remove the SERVER_CONSOLE user ID, which has system privilege, from the system.

The QUERY command

The administrator can use the query command to obtain information about Tivoli Storage Manager components and operations. As with all commands, if you do not know the syntax of the command, use help. For example, the help query command provides more details about the query command. Query commands are not case-sensitive. You can use Q as a shortcut for query in commands.

The query system command is a single command that gathers consolidated information regarding Tivoli Storage Manager configuration and capacity. The query system command combines the query and select commands to list the following types of information

Server options and status

Processes and sessions

DB and log configuration

Storage pool configuration

Device configuration

Policies information

Schedules and nodes

Query commands for verifying successful server installation

Verify that the server is successfully installed by issuing sever a query commands from an administrative client or the server console.

Query status,which shows if the server is enabled.

Query stgpool, which shows that the storagepools setup automatically during the installation.

Query db, which shows that the installation setup the default database,TSMDB1.

Querylog, which shows the total used and free space fort he log.

Query option, which shows that the installation setup options in dsmserv.optfile.

Query activity log

The activity log records all the messages sent to the server console during server operations except for query commands that are issued on the console. Error messages that are sent to the server console are also stored in the activity log.

To review messages that are generated on October 24 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., enter the following command

query actlog begindate=10/13/2014

enddate=10/13/2013 begintime=08:00

endtime=17:00

To request information about messages that pertain to the expiration of files from the server storage inventory, enter the following command: